Don’t Read the Bible Aloud on the Bus

According to this story,
“Woman Escorted Off Bus For Reading Bible Aloud”
A woman in Forth Worth was kicked off the bus for reading her Bible out loud to her kids.
I can’t say if this is “persecution” or not, it probably isn’t. I did find a comment attributed to a transit company’s rep interesting,
“Anyone who [...]

The Brut Sun Bowl? Beelieve it!

Needless to say, found myself drawn to college football on this sunny New Year’s Eve. With the absence of cable in our household, the only game available for this college football fan’s viewing pleasure is the Brut Sun Bowl which pits the Oregon Ducks against the South Florida Bulls.

Don’t laugh at the matchup, mid-season [...]

Anything for Hannah Montana Tickets

This story is somewhat beyond belief but not entirely due to the Hannah’s fanatical following:

“‘We Never Said This Was A True Story’
Hannah Montana Concert Winner Wrote Untrue Essay On Dad’s Death”
I initially heard about this on the local news and truth be told when the mother was confronted (on camera) about the lie by a [...]

Texas Bedevils Arizona State

Didn’t watch the Holiday Bowl due to the simple fact that we do not have cable, but thanks to YouTube as well as the gentleman who provided the video embedded below, I caught the highlights,

How ’bout those highly-paid ESPN analysts? LOL…
For a spot-on analysis of the game click here.

Southern Baptists address Calvinism

I thought this story interesting, especially after izzy99’s comment regarding the many Christian divisions,
“Honest Calvinism Talks Urged among Southern Baptists”
(H/T:Job)

Humans aren’t easily amused, we are too easily pleased

From CS Lewis’ classic sermon, “The Weight of Glory”,
Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he [...]

2007 Quotes of the Year

According to one Fred R. Shapiro of the Yale Book of quotations as cited in this story, here are the top 10 quotes of 2007,
1. “Don’t tase me, bro.” — Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, while being hauled away by campus police during a speech by Sen. John Kerry. [I wonder [...]

Shinya Yamanaka on Embryonic Stem Cells

Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka was recently featured in a piece in the New York Times,
“Risk Taking Is in His Genes”.
Dr. Yamanaka does research on stem cells and according to the piece,
Last month, his was one of two groups of researchers that independently announced they had successfully turned adult skin cells into the equivalent of human [...]

Andy Pettitte: Another Christian Hypocrite

As a member of the Christian Hypocrite Hall of Fame (you see I became a member the very same day I was baptized), I want to extend my congratulations to Andy Pettitte for living a hypocrisy-free life until the age of 35.
I am convinced that the folks who pay no mind to “religion” because of [...]

Peace Village: More Interfaith Confusion

We believe that all religions are basically the same –
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation. — from Steve Turner’s “Creed”
Many Christians are angered or disturbed by so-called Interfaith groups. Anger isn’t really an emotion that [...]